diff --git a/helma/Search.js b/helma/Search.js
index 6e8aff37..e0772eae 100644
--- a/helma/Search.js
+++ b/helma/Search.js
@@ -395,6 +395,25 @@ helma.Search.Index.prototype.size = function() {
     return;
 };
 
+/**
+ * Returns the number of documents with the given field name and value.
+ * @param {String} fieldName The name of the field
+ * @param {String} fieldValue The value of the field
+ * @returns The number of documents
+ * @type Number
+ */
+helma.Search.Index.prototype.count = function(fieldName, fieldValue) {
+    try {
+        var reader = this.getReader();
+        var term = new Packages.org.apache.lucene.index.Term(fieldName, fieldValue);
+        return reader.docFreq(term);
+    } finally {
+        if (reader !== null) {
+            reader.close();
+        }
+    }
+};
+
 /**
  * Optimizes the underlying index.
  */
diff --git a/helma/lucene-analyzers.jar b/helma/lucene-analyzers.jar
index 7e37b731..6bd3d31e 100644
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diff --git a/helma/lucene-core.jar b/helma/lucene-core.jar
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